(ThyBlackMan.com) Few R&B groups from the late 1980s and early 1990s managed to blend vocal precision, stage charisma, and emotional depth quite like Troop. Hailing from Pasadena, California, the five ...

NEW YORK -- Raul Malo, the soulful tenor and frontman of the genre-defying, Grammy-winning band The Mavericks, has died. He was 60.

Malo died Monday night, his wife, Betty Malo, posted on his Facebook page. He had been battling cancer. The frontman of The Mavericks had documented his health journey on social media since he ...

Growing up in Philadelphia in the 1990s, I listened to soul singer-turned-R&B sex symbol Teddy Pendergrass and other artists who defined the Sound of Philadelphia. Now, as a professor of ethnic ...

KC and the Sunshine Band, racism, instrumental songs, forgettable melodrama, good to great FM radio fodder, and a Bowie ...

Steve Cropper was among the most influential writers, producers, and guitarists in the world of R&B and Southern Soul.

Wolverhampton born musician Carl McGregor and his band Project 21 will be performing soul music classics at the A Christmas Rendezvous show at the University of Wolverhampton at The Halls in North ...

ST. LOUIS – The timeless magic of Motown is coming to Touhill Performing Arts Center on Saturday, November 1 at 7:30 p.m. “Motown in your Town” features That Motown Band with vocalist Garfield Fleming ...

The University of Central Arkansas Public Appearances will present “UPTOWN: A Celebration of Motown and Soul” at 7 p.m. on Sept. 25 at Reynolds Performance Hall. Fusing Bruno Mars-caliber stage ...

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